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Next, if he cannot afford to buy another cow or two, he 

 may manage to buy a poor yearling, which some one 

 else has half-starved, or a calf or two, or rear his own 

 calves, or some young pigs, and these, by their improve- 

 ment when well fed, will soon enable him to buy a good 

 cow. In short, let a man get any beast that will make 

 him manure, and he will soon find the improvement in 

 his crops will enable him to buy as many cows as he 

 pleases. Just remember what I paid some of you last 

 year for a little clover — £l for a quarter of an acre, and 

 for only one cutting. Why, two cuttings of one acre of 

 it, at this price, would, if sold, pay the price of a cow. 

 Only let a man really exert himself, and I will answer 

 for it that he will succeed. 



But some one else will say, that " they manure their 

 land well with sand and oar-weed and earth, which is 

 as good as having all this dung." This I wholly deny. 

 When a man has manured his land well with dung, 

 sand and oar-weed are excellent as additional manures, 

 but ly themselves they are not nearly so good as people 

 think, and will not give good crops. As to putting on 

 earth, it is only robbing one part of the field for the 

 sake of another part : you gain nothing by it, unless 

 where you throw down an old ditch, or something of 

 that sort. 



The chief objection, however, is, " We cannot spare 

 the dung for the turnips, we want it for the potatoes." 

 Now, no doubt, the potatoes will be the better of all 

 the dung you can give them ; and I allow that in giving 

 part of it to the turnips, you will, for that year, lose in 

 the potatoes ; but then the next year, YOU will gain 



THREE TIMES OVER WHAT YOU LOST THE YEAR BEFORE. 



The manure you will have, by feeding your cattle in the 



